Analyzes the theological heritage, development, and social institutions of Seventh-Day Adventism

Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-Day Adventism and the American Dream

Religion & Spirituality

Bull, Malcolm

Lockhart, Keith

Christian Books & Bibles

Harpercollins

By the end of the 15th century, the remains of the ancient gods littered the landscape of Western Europe. Christianity had erased the religions of ancient Greece and Rome and most Europeans believed the destruction of classical art was God's judgment on the pagan deities. How, then, did European artists during the next three centuries create such monumental works as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Raphael's Parnassus? In The Mirror of the Gods, Malcolm Bull tells the revolutionary story of how the great artists of Western Europe--from Botticelli and Leonardo to Titian and Rubens--revived the gods of ancient Greece and Rome. Each chapter focuses on a different deity and sheds dazzling new light on such familiar figures as Venus, Hercules, and Bacchus. Bull draws on hundreds of illustrations to illuminate the ancient myths through the eyes of Renaissance and Baroque artists, not as they appear in classical literature. When the wealthy and powerful princes of Christian Europe began to identify with the pagan gods, myth became the artist's medium for telling the story of his own time. The Mirror of the Gods is the fascinating and extraordinary story of how Renaissance artists combined mythological imagery and artistic virtuosity to change the course of western art. The Mirror of the Gods profoundly deepens our understanding of some of the greatest and most subversive artwork in European history. This delightfully told, lavishly illustrated, and extraordinary book amply rewards our ongoing fascination with classical myth and Renaissance art.

The Mirror of the Gods: How the Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The Pick Operating System

Pick is a operating system, designed to avoid many of the constraints and complexities which other operating systems impose on users. This book is based upon comprehensive training courses run, over several years, by the author. It should be useful to all Pick operating system users, from the manager wanting a management overview, to the technical programmer.

Computers & Technology

Programming

Chapman & Hall

The Pick operating system is a popular computer environment for commercial data processing. One of its features is the Access enquiry language which allows the users to make enquiries about their data and to produce reports based upon their files. Whether it is knows as Access, English, Info/Access, Inform, Recal or any of the other alias. The material in this book is relevant to implementation on several cognate systems. This book is designed to be of use to Pick users - the beginner and the end user who are just setting out to use Access, the experienced user who wants to get more out of the language, and the technical user. Firstly the general nature of the language is discussed and then detailed features with practical examples of its usage are given.

Access, the Pick Enquiry Language (Chapman and Hall Computing)

Software

An introductory guide to the structure and design of databases and their software in the same series as the "Students' Guides" to information technology, office automation and business computing.

Students' guide to databases (Heinemann Newnes informatics series)

Heinemann Newnes

Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World (Wolfson College Lectures)

In this volume, historians, critics, and theorists review 3000 years of apocalyptic thought. Tracing the history of millenarianism from ancient times to the 17th century, each theorist investigates the modern and postmodern debates in which apocalyptic themes are recirculated. From Zoroaster to Derrida, thinkers have used the dramatic language of apocalyptic to uncover the ends of the world, exploring the relationship between ends as purposes and ends as terminations, and the connections between religious and secular versions of apocalyptic theory. In the resulting interplay of closure and disclosure, they have sought to find purpose to lift, and a conclusion to history. As the millennium draws to a close, questions about the end of the world seem increasingly urgent. This volume then is a guide to these bewildering questions and discourses of the limit. It should be of interest to anyone participating in contemporary debates in cultural studies, religious studies, literary theory, postmodernist philosophy and history. Malcolm Bull is the co-author (with Keith Lockhard) of "Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-Day Adventism and the American Dream".

Reference

Blackwell Pub.

Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination. Truth was not something that could be observed: instead, it was something made in the way that paintings were made--through the exercise of fantasy.
 Juxtaposing paintings and texts, Bull presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Revealing the close connections between the arguments of the philosophers and the arguments of the painters, he shows how Vico drew on both in his influential philosophy of history, The New Science. Bull suggests that painting can serve not just as an illustration for philosophical arguments, but also as the model for them--that painting itself has sometimes been a form of epistemological experiment, and that, perhaps surprisingly, the Neapolitan Baroque may have been one of the routes through which modern consciousness was formed.

Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting (Essays in the Arts)

Princeton University Press

On Mercy

Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become “an injustice committed against society . . . a manifest vice.” Mercy was exiled from political life. How did this happen?In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment’s rejection of mercy. A society operating on principles of rational self-interest had no place for something so arbitrary and contingent, and having been excluded from Hobbes’s theory of the state and Hume’s theory of justice, mercy disappeared from the lexicon of political theory. But, Bull argues, these idealised conceptions have proved too limiting. Political realism demands recognition of the foundational role of mercy in society. If we are vulnerable to harm from others, we are in need of their mercy. By restoring the primacy of mercy over justice, we may constrain the powerful and release the agency of the powerless. And if arguments for capitalism are arguments against mercy, might the case for mercy challenge the very basis of our thinking about society and the state?An important contribution to contemporary political philosophy from an inventive thinker, On Mercy makes a persuasive case for returning this neglected virtue to the heart of political thought.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Review\n“[A] fascinating essay.”―Christopher Brooke, Mind\n“Charmingly erudite . . . an important work.”―Joe Humphreys, Irish Times\n“[On Mercy] excavates the virtue of mercy as a means to dethroning the supreme values of our age that have failed us.”―Thomas Meaney, New Statesman\n“A clever thought experiment on the question of whether mercy might not only be reconciled with justice but could displace it at the center of our political life.”―David A. Skeel, Wall Street Journal\n“Subtle, scholarly, and interesting. . . . In [Bull’s] book, mercy becomes a concept that can illuminate our history, our present, and the dilemmas on the horizon.”―Chiara Ricciardone, The Philosopher\nIs mercy more important than justice?\nSince antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment’s rejection of mercy. Political realism, Bull argues, demands recognition of the foundational role of mercy in society. If we are vulnerable to harm from others, we are in need of their mercy. By restoring the primacy of mercy over justice, we may constrain the powerful and release the agency of the powerless. An important contribution to political philosophy from an inventive thinker, On Mercy makes a persuasive case for returning this neglected virtue to the heart of political thought.

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists started to decorate luxury goods with scandalous stories from classical mythology, and rulers began to identify with the deities of ancient religion. The resulting fusion of erotic fantasy and political power changed the course of western art and produced many of its most magical and subversive works.The first book ever to survey this extraordinary phenomenon in its entirety, THE MIRROR OF THE GODS takes the story from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Each chapter focuses on a particular god (Diana, Apollo, Hercules, Venus, Bacchus, Jupiter) and recounts the tales about that deity, not as they appear in classical literature but as they were re-created by artists like Botticelli, Titian, Poussin and Rembrandt. Readers will never see art in quite the same way again.

The Mirror of the Gods : Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art

Allen Lane.

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Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-Day Adventism and the American Dream

The Mirror of the Gods: How the Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods

The Pick Operating System

Access, the Pick Enquiry Language (Chapman and Hall Computing)

Students' guide to databases (Heinemann Newnes informatics series)

Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World (Wolfson College Lectures)

Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting (Essays in the Arts)

On Mercy

On Mercy

The Mirror of the Gods : Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art